me that
Andrew was holding his first interview with Emily, Mr. Winters was
listening to a brief account of his return, with some of the
pleasing incidents immediately attendant thereon. In a meeting with
the young man shortly afterward, he was prepossessed in his
favor, and when he saw that he was disposed to renew the old
intimate relations with Emily, he did not in the least object.

Thus, after a lapse of over twenty-five years, two families, each
possessed of substantial virtues, and with social qualities forming
a plane for reciprocal good feeling, but which had been forced apart
by the narrow prejudice and iron will of Mr. Howland, came together
in a marriage of two of its members. Alas! how much of wrong and
suffering appertained to that long period during which they were
thus held apart! How many scars from heart-wounds were left; and
these not always painless!

Can any summing up of the causes and consequences set forth in our
story give force to the lessons it teaches? We think not; and
therefore leave it with the reader to do its own work.

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